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The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays)

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays)

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) is one of the UK’s oldest vinyl record listening clubs. We’ve had some of the finest names in music (producers, journalists, musicians, actors etc) come along and talk about many a classic long playing record. Our audience listen to the albums in respectful silence. We are based in the Pigeon Loft at The Robin Hood in West Yorkshire, England. Our website tells the story of The CAT Club and lists all the albums we’ve played since we started in 2011 with a

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00:47:08

THE WHO – WHO'S NEXT

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/06/15

THE WHO – WHO'S NEXT with special guest Jon Astley. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. Apart from Live at Leeds, the Who have never sounded as LOUD and unhinged as they do on Who’s Next, yet that's balanced by ballads, both lovely ("The Song Is Over") and scathing ("Behind Blue Eyes"). That's the key to Who's Next – there's anger and sorrow, humour and regret, passion and tumult, all wrapped up in a blistering package

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01:03:03

VAN MORRISON – MOONDANCE

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/06/01

VAN MORRISON – MOONDANCE with special guest Peter Mills. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. The yang to Astral Weeks' yin, the brilliant Moondance is every bit as much a classic as its predecessor; Van Morrison's first commercially successful solo effort, it retains the previous album's deeply spiritual thrust but transcends its bleak, cathartic intensity to instead explore themes of renewal and redemption. Light, soulful, and jazzy, Moondance

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00:52:38

THE ROLLING STONES – BEGGAR’S BANQUET

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/06/01

THE ROLLING STONES – BEGGAR’S BANQUET with special guest Paul Sexton. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. In 1968 the Stones forsook psychedelic experimentation to return to their blues roots on this celebrated album, which was immediately acclaimed as one of their landmark achievements. A strong acoustic Delta blues flavour colours much of the material, particularly “Salt of the Earth” and “No Expectations,” which features some beautiful slide guitar work

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01:40:48

AN EVENING WITH P.P. ARNOLD

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/05/25

AN EVENING WITH P.P. ARNOLD. A fascinating interview with the soul survivor herself who regaled The CAT Club with many fine tales indeed. P.P. Arnold’s career and life story is one of highs, lows, success and survival. Known for chart hits such as The First Cut Is the Deepest and Angel of the Morning, her amazing career spans five decades of rock’n’roll history. Starting out in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue as an Ikette, she arrived in London in 1966 to support the Rolling Stones where she caught

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01:03:20

THE BEATLES – REVOLVER (2022 remix)

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/05/15

THE BEATLES – REVOLVER (Giles Martin/Sam Okell 2022 remix) with special guest Heath Common. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. That a new mix exists at all is a testament to contemporary technology; Giles Martin describes the task of "de-mixing" the original tapes to isolate the individual elements. Despite that herculean effort, Martin admits "there's nothing too extreme" in his and Okell's stereo remix. Instead, it brings

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00:57:06

THE CLASH – GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/05/15

THE CLASH – GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE with special guest Ray Gange. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. Part fiction, part rockumentary, Rude Boy tells the story of Ray Gange, a young Clash fan who leaves his dead-end job in a sleazy Soho sex shop to become a roadie for the band. The movie was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival in 1980. During the making of Rude Boy, The Clash recorded their second album, the

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01:07:22

PINK FLOYD – THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/05/05

PINK FLOYD – THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN with special guest Rob Chapman. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. The title of Pink Floyd's debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett's favourite children's book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical imagery of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is indeed full of colourful, childlike, distinctly British whimsy, albeit filtered through the perceptive lens of LSD. Barrett's catchy, melodic

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00:48:38

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – DON'T STAND ME DOWN

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/05/02

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – DON'T STAND DOWN with special guest Helen O'Hara. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. In March 1985, Kevin Rowland, lead singer and songwriter of Dexys Midnight Runners was facing total ruin. Don’t Stand Me Down, his labour of love and an album he had spent two years of his life writing, recording and mixing, might just have been burned in a fire at the record label’s office in New York, and lost forever. Two years work, and

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01:10:30

THE UNDERTONES (Eponymous debut album)

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/05/02

THE UNDERTONES with special guest Damian O'Neill. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. What is a perfect album? One could make an argument that a perfect album is one that sets out a specific set of artistic criteria and then fulfills them flawlessly. In that respect, and many others, the Undertones 1979 debut is a perfect album. DAMIAN O'NEILL, the band's guitarist was with us to wax lyrical about the record and all things Undertones. Damian was

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00:49:49

NICK DRAKE – PINK MOON

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/04/19

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. NICK DRAKE – PINK MOON with special guest John Wood. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. Both bewitching & brilliant, Pink Moon more than anything else is the record that made Nick Drake the ultimate cult figure that he remains. JOHN WOOD is one of the finest engineers and producers these shores have ever produced. Just some of the major artists has worked with include John Martyn,

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00:53:58

THE HOUSEMARTINS – LONDON 0 HULL 4

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/04/19

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. LONDON 0 HULL 4 – THE HOUSEMARTINS with special guest John Williams. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. London 0 Hull 4 is a varied, tuneful and captivating listen which is as equally enthralling musically as it is thought-provoking lyrically. While you may not necessarily agree with Heaton's leftist views, at the very worst this album will cause you to consider what you believe

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01:04:12

PRIMAL SCREAM – GIVE OUT BUT DON'T GIVE UP (THE...

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/04/03

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. PRIMAL SCREAM – GIVE OUT BUT DON'T GIVE UP (THE ORIGINAL MEMPHIS RECORDINGS) with special guest Andrew Innes. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. In 2018 Andrew Innes, Primal Scream's guitarist, found the original tapes of the band's recordings in Memphis of their album, Give Out But Don't Give Up in his basement. The tapes featured the original mixes of tracks recorded

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01:15:12

THE STROKES – IS THIS IT

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/04/03

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. IS THIS IT – THE STROKES with special guest Gordon Raphael. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. GORDON RAPHAEL produced not only The Strokes’ debut ep but also their first two albums including the seminal Is This It in 2001. His work with The Strokes, The Libertines and Regina Spektor has secured him a place in rock & roll history. His new and eagerly awaited memoir, The World Is

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01:01:34

THE HUMAN LEAGUE – DARE

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/03/21

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. DARE – THE HUMAN LEAGUE with special guest Ian Burden. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. The Human League’s critically acclaimed, genre-defining classic album, Dare from 1981 features some of the most influential synthesiser sounds ever recorded. IAN BURDEN was the man with his fingers on the keyboards. Ian was with us in conversation talking about the band and a true eighties

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00:55:19

THE POGUES – RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/03/14

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH – THE POGUES with special guest Richard Balls This interview took place before and after we listened to Rum, Sodomy & The Lash, a true classic album from 1985. RICHARD BALLS wrote the definitive biography of Shane MacGowan: A Furious Devotion: The Life Of Shane MacGowan. We were delighted to welcome Richard to The CAT Club as our special guest to talk about his book and the Pogues’ magnum opus

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00:57:40

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/03/12

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO with special guest Maxine Peake. This fascinating interview took place before and after we listened to the band's debut vinyl album. MAXINE PEAKE, the award winning actress, writer and director of television, film, radio and stage starred as Nico in The Nico Project which was featured at the Manchester International Festival to great critical acclaim in 2019. We were delighted to welcome

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00:57:12

KATE BUSH – NEVER FOR EVER

The CAT Club (Classic Album Thursdays) ·

2023/03/12

Mar 8 • 57:40 THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. NEVER FOR EVER – KATE BUSH with special guest Brian Bath. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. Released in 1980, Never For Ever was the first album by a British female artist to top the UK album chart. It was also the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at number one. BRIAN BATH is a seminal figure in Kate’s career. He was the guitarist with the KT

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